The War of Guns and Mathematics

The War of Guns and Mathematics
Author: David Aubin
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2014-10-07
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1470414694

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For a long time, World War I has been shortchanged by the historiography of science. Until recently, World War II was usually considered as the defining event for the formation of the modern relationship between science and society. In this context, the effects of the First World War, by contrast, were often limited to the massive deaths of promising young scientists. By focusing on a few key places (Paris, Cambridge, Rome, Chicago, and others), the present book gathers studies representing a broad spectrum of positions adopted by mathematicians about the conflict, from militant pacifism to military, scientific, or ideological mobilization. The use of mathematics for war is thoroughly examined. This book suggests a new vision of the long-term influence of World War I on mathematics and mathematicians. Continuities and discontinuities in the structure and organization of the mathematical sciences are discussed, as well as their images in various milieux. Topics of research and the values with which they were defended are scrutinized. This book, in particular, proposes a more in-depth evaluation of the issue of modernity and modernization in mathematics. The issue of scientific international relations after the war is revisited by a close look at the situation in a few Allied countries (France, Britain, Italy, and the USA). The historiography has emphasized the place of Germany as the leading mathematical country before WWI and the absurdity of its postwar ostracism by the Allies. The studies presented here help explain how dramatically different prewar situations, prolonged interaction during the war, and new international postwar organizations led to attempts at redrafting models for mathematical developments.

The War of Guns and Mathematics

The War of Guns and Mathematics
Author: David Aubin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2014
Genre: War and mathematics
ISBN: 9781470418595

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Cover -- Title page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Placing World War I in the history of mathematics -- Starting Up -- Cambridge mathematicians' responses to the First World War -- The total war of Paris mathematicians -- Joining In -- Italian mathematicians and the First World War: Intellectual debates and institutional innovations -- A mobilized community: Mathematicians in the United States during the First World War -- Moving On -- Debating the place of mathematics at the École polytechnique around World War I -- "I'm just a mathematician": Why and how mathematicians collaborated with military ballisticians at Gâvre -- Why aerodynamics failed to take off in Nancy: An unexpected casualty of World War I -- Index -- Back Cover

Mathematics and War

Mathematics and War
Author: Bernhelm Booss
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2003-09-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9783764316341

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Mathematics has for centuries been stimulated, financed and credited by military purposes. Some mathematical thoughts and mathematical technology have also been vital in war. During World War II mathematical work by the Anti-Hitler coalition was part of an aspiration to serve humanity and not help destroy it. At present, it is not an easy task to view the bellicose potentials of mathematics in a proper perspective. The book presents historical evidence and recent changes in the interaction between mathematics and the military. It discusses the new mathematically enhanced development of military technology which seems to have changed the very character of modern warfare.

Weapons of Math Destruction

Weapons of Math Destruction
Author: Cathy O'Neil
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2016
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0553418815

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"A former Wall Street quantitative analyst sounds an alarm on mathematical modeling, a pervasive new force in society that threatens to undermine democracy and widen inequality,"--NoveList.

Arms and Insecurity

Arms and Insecurity
Author: Lewis F. Richardson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1960
Genre: History
ISBN:

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The Best Writing on Mathematics 2016

The Best Writing on Mathematics 2016
Author: Mircea Pitici
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2017-02-14
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1400885604

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The year's finest mathematics writing from around the world This annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on Mathematics 2016 makes available to a wide audience many articles not easily found anywhere else—and you don't need to be a mathematician to enjoy them. These writings offer surprising insights into the nature, meaning, and practice of mathematics today. They delve into the history, philosophy, teaching, and everyday occurrences of math, and take readers behind the scenes of today's hottest mathematical debates. Here Burkard Polster shows how to invent your own variants of the Spot It! card game, Steven Strogatz presents young Albert Einstein's proof of the Pythagorean Theorem, Joseph Dauben and Marjorie Senechal find a treasure trove of math in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Andrew Gelman explains why much scientific research based on statistical testing is spurious. In other essays, Brian Greene discusses the evolving assumptions of the physicists who developed the mathematical underpinnings of string theory, Jorge Almeida examines the misperceptions of people who attempt to predict lottery results, and Ian Stewart offers advice to authors who aspire to write successful math books for general readers. And there's much, much more. In addition to presenting the year's most memorable writings on mathematics, this must-have anthology includes a bibliography of other notable writings and an introduction by the editor, Mircea Pitici. This book belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in where math has taken us—and where it is headed.

Mathematics Going Forward

Mathematics Going Forward
Author: Jean-Michel Morel
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 629
Release: 2023-06-14
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3031122445

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This volume is an original collection of articles by 44 leading mathematicians on the theme of the future of the discipline. The contributions range from musings on the future of specific fields, to analyses of the history of the discipline, to discussions of open problems and conjectures, including first solutions of unresolved problems. Interestingly, the topics do not cover all of mathematics, but only those deemed most worthy to reflect on for future generations. These topics encompass the most active parts of pure and applied mathematics, including algebraic geometry, probability, logic, optimization, finance, topology, partial differential equations, category theory, number theory, differential geometry, dynamical systems, artificial intelligence, theory of groups, mathematical physics and statistics.

Model and Mathematics: From the 19th to the 21st Century

Model and Mathematics: From the 19th to the 21st Century
Author: Michael Friedman
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2022-08-08
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3030978338

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This open access book collects the historical and medial perspectives of a systematic and epistemological analysis of the complicated, multifaceted relationship between model and mathematics, ranging from, for example, the physical mathematical models of the 19th century to the simulation and digital modelling of the 21st century. The aim of this anthology is to showcase the status of the mathematical model between abstraction and realization, presentation and representation, what is modeled and what models. This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

Mathematical Communities in the Reconstruction After the Great War 1918–1928

Mathematical Communities in the Reconstruction After the Great War 1918–1928
Author: Laurent Mazliak
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2021-03-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030616835

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This book is a consequence of the international meeting organized in Marseilles in November 2018 devoted to the aftermath of the Great War for mathematical communities. It features selected original research presented at the meeting offering a new perspective on a period, the 1920s, not extensively considered by historiography. After 1918, new countries were created, and borders of several others were modified. Territories were annexed while some countries lost entire regions. These territorial changes bear witness to the massive and varied upheavals with which European societies were confronted in the aftermath of the Great War. The reconfiguration of political Europe was accompanied by new alliances and a redistribution of trade – commercial, intellectual, artistic, military, and so on – which largely shaped international life during the interwar period. These changes also had an enormous impact on scientific life, not only in practice, but also in its organization and communication strategies. The mathematical sciences, which from the late 19th century to the 1920s experienced a deep disciplinary evolution, were thus facing a double movement, internal and external, which led to a sustainable restructuring of research and teaching. Concomitantly, various areas such as topology, functional analysis, abstract algebra, logic or probability, among others, experienced exceptional development. This was accompanied by an explosion of new international or national associations of mathematicians with for instance the founding, in 1918, of the International Mathematical Union and the controversial creation of the International Research Council. Therefore, the central idea for the articulation of the various chapters of the book is to present case studies illustrating how in the aftermath of the war, many mathematicians had to organize their personal trajectories taking into account the evolution of the political, social and scientific environment which had taken place at the end of the conflict.